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Milk and Egg Recalls, August 2010

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This has been a busy week for USDA investigators. First, 23 people in
Oregon were sickened from Salmonella poisoning and two were hospitalized
after drinking milk from Umpqua Dairy.

Second, 380 million eggs have been recalled after hundreds of
reported cases of salmonella have been traced to tainted eggs.

That adds up to 32 million cartons, and somewhere, somebody has a
whole lotta egg on his face.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):

The most common symptoms of salmonella are diarrhea, abdominal
cramps and fever within eight hours to 72 hours of eating a
contaminated product. It can be life-threatening, especially to
those with weakened immune systems.

If you continue to drink milk or eat eggs, will these recalls
provide information enough for you to become vegan?

Probably not because most Americans find eggs to be delicious, easy
to store, and relatively cheap, and cow's milk is nature's perfect food,
or so you've been told since you were old enough to be brainwashed.

So far as I am concerned, eggs are the dirtiest stinkiest items in
our food chain. They may not cause the vast array of diseases attributed
to dairy, but I and most other vegans are able to instantly identify an
egg eater at 20 paces...for good reason!

Why are eggs so delicious? Give credit to the sulfur...it's hard to
resist that flavor.

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. There are 28 amino
acids in nature.
We manufacture 19 of those 28 in our livers. The other 9 are called
"essential."
We must get them from the foods we eat. Two of those 28 amino acids have
sulfur as their
center atom. These two aminos are methionine and cysteine. These two
amino acids combine to make homocysteine in the human body. Many
scientists call high homocysteine levels the key to heart disease.

The underlying meaning of a plant-based diet has become one of
compassion to both animals and humans. By eating animal proteins which
are rich in methionine and cysteine,
we taint human tissues and compromise cardiovascular and skeletal
systems. The high amount of sulfur in animal protein adds flavor to meat
and cheese, but it also results in a rotten egg-smell essence on the
human physiology and psyche.

The Japanese once derisively called Americans "the butter people" for
the smell emanating from our breath and skin. Vegans know that stench
when they come close to meat eaters. Absence of that obnoxious odor is
like a secret handshake which one resident of the planet "Vega" uses to
recognize a fellow vegan. The malodorous essence circulates in a meat
eater's blood and body fluids.

It is a metallic rancid odor which offends olfactory senses. Science
is beginning to assess the horrible cumulative bouquet on internal
cellular and organ function.

Consider: The primary commercial uses for sulfur are for the
manufacture of gunpowder, pesticides, and matches. Although the
milligrams of sulfur provided by eating a plant-based diet are
critically important for human functioning, it may very well be the
over-consumption
of centigrams and decigrams of sulfur which fill hospital beds and fuel
America's ever-expanding medical community.

The high rates of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, asthma,
diabetes, and other human disorders can be directly traced to the
consumption of animal flesh and body fluids. Milk has been called
"liquid meat," and concentrated dairy products such as cheese and ice
cream are the unhealthiest weapons of mass destruction known to
humankind.

Eggs taint one's essence. Vegans confirm that those who eat a
plant-based diet make better lovers. Their breath does not smell rancid
or metallic. Neither does their body fluid. Keep me ten paces away from
regular egg eaters, because they exude a most unpleasant stench.

There is some good news about the Salmonella poisonings. FDA has
drafted a new protocol for egg producers. I suspect that FDA's comedy
writers collaborated on this one.
Included in their list of directives for egg producers:

"Remove all visible manure (§ 118.4(d)(1));
"Dry clean the positive poultry house to remove dust, feathers, and
old feed (§ 118.4(d)(2)); and
"Following cleaning, disinfect the positive poultry house with
spray, aerosol, fumigation, or another appropriate disinfection
method (§ 118.4(d)(3))."

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